“Not giving into blackmail” sounds like letting Aberforth (etc?) be killed by the Deatheaters rather than giving into demands, but I dunno if it was implied that Narcissa was direct revenge for that, or if that was a separate incident.
The relevant sentence is “The Death Eaters learned, toward the end of the war, not to attack the Order’s families.”. At least, that’s the one that made me say something like “oh crap” out loud.
Yeah, I was thinking “learned how exactly?”, which would match with the Narcissa thing, but then the further elaboration took me away from that idea. But it could still well mean that.
“Not giving into blackmail” sounds like letting Aberforth (etc?) be killed by the Deatheaters rather than giving into demands, but I dunno if it was implied that Narcissa was direct revenge for that, or if that was a separate incident.
The relevant sentence is “The Death Eaters learned, toward the end of the war, not to attack the Order’s families.”. At least, that’s the one that made me say something like “oh crap” out loud.
Yeah, I was thinking “learned how exactly?”, which would match with the Narcissa thing, but then the further elaboration took me away from that idea. But it could still well mean that.
I didn’t notice an elaboration that qualified it.
From the same paragraph:
So that seems to confirm ShardPhoenix’s interpretation (which was also mine).
The sentence in between explicitly changes the subject, so that he’s referring to Voldemort and not the Death Eaters.